Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
TCD has so MANY AMAZING alumni – we are so lucky to have such a distinguished community making impacts around the globe. Today we celebrate Marcela Marquez who won the Women in Science 2022 award from L’Oreal-UNESCO !!! Just a few weeks ago, Marcela joined us at UF as the awardee for the Center for
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of global conservation leader Dr. Gustavo Fonseca, who passed away on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. At the time of his death, Gustavo was Director of Programs for The Global Environmental Facility. Gustavo was a dear friend, alumnus, colleague, and mentor to the TCD program and countless others. His
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Congratulations to UF TCD and SNRE alumna Cristina Nuñez Godoy for her new publication “Willingness of private landowners to participate in forest conservation in the Chaco region of Argentina” in Forest Policy and Economics. This research was part of her PhD dissertation work and is co-authored by Elizabeth Pienaar and Lyn Branch. Great example of
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UF WEC/TCD faculty and TCD alum Matt Hallett’s work with the Sustainable Wildlife Management Program of Guyana on finding solutions to human-wildlife conflict in the Rupununi region of Guyana was featured by the IUCN and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for World Wildlife Day. Part of this solution was engaging local
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From all of us at TCD THANK YOU so very much for your contributions and support on 2022 UF Giving Day! We cannot do this without you!! A very special thanks to Jennifer Johnson, Omar Hernandez, Vanessa Luna and the TCD Student Group for their amazing behind the scenes support. https://bit.ly/TCDGivingDayhttps://bit.ly/TCDInnovationGivingDay
“In 1997, Victoria Reyes Garcia was living in Ecuador, working on her master’s thesis, and doing fieldwork in partnership with a newly founded U.S.-based research initiative called MERGE —Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis. This connection would lead her to MERGE’s founder, Marianne Schmink, and eventually to the University of Florida, where she studied
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